by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The riots and violence in Afghanistan over some accidentally burned Korans are following a script that by now is all too drearily familiar. Continue reading “Koran Burning and Destructive Double Standards”
Tag: Imperialism
Taking Out Dictators
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the past 40 years, the United States has intervened to go after autocrats in Afghanistan, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Somalia, and Serbia. We have attacked by air, by land, and by a combination of both. Continue reading “Taking Out Dictators”
Culture Matters
by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal
Review of Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy, by Ibn Warraq, (Encounter, 2011, 286 pp.) Continue reading “Culture Matters”
Despicable Israel Libels on Display in California Universities
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The moral and intellectual corruption of American universities has recently manifested itself in the California State University system, the largest in the country. Continue reading “Despicable Israel Libels on Display in California Universities”
Time for a Foreign Policy Paradigm Shift
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The greatest danger in foreign policy is a reliance on worn out paradigms and unexamined assumptions. This received wisdom acts as a mental filter that ignores new developments and lets through only that information which fits the preordained narrative. Continue reading “Time for a Foreign Policy Paradigm Shift”
A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The full story is not out on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and he is innocent of forcible sexual battery until proven guilty, but already the case has exposed an ancient abyss between European elite and American popular cultures — accentuated by the differences between New York’s rough-and-tumble media and legal worlds on the one hand and IMF technocracy and French privilege on the other. Continue reading “A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines”
Egypt’s Identity Crisis
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
With Egypt’s “July Revolution” of 1952, for the first time in millennia, Egyptians were able to boast that a native-born Egyptian, Gamal Abdel Nasser, would govern their nation: Ever since the overthrow of its last native pharaoh nearly 2,500 years ago, Egypt had been ruled by a host of foreign invaders — Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Brits, to name a few. Continue reading “Egypt’s Identity Crisis”